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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - Events Calendar of Sustainable Agriculture Events

2008 New American Farm Conference
SARE’s 20th Anniversary New American Farm Conference was a rousing success! Posters, handouts, and breakout session presentations can now be downloaded for review.  


Events for the next 4 months:

Ongoing through August 31, 2009
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Permaculture Design Courses At The Art Farm in the Ardeche region of the south of France.

This is an exciting opportunity giving you the chance to learn permaculture design theory whilst actively experiencing a sustainable way of life. The art farm is being transformed using applied permacultu...
Location: The Art Farm, Ardeche, France
Scope: International
Website: http://www.theartfarm.info

Ongoing through August 17, 2009
2009 Organic Farm School Registration Now Open!
The Women's Environmental Institute is pleased to announce the opening of its 2009 Organic Farm School. Organic Farm School is a unique ten-week educational summer program composed of lectures, related readings, hands-on workshops and field trips related to sustainable agriculture, food justice a...
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.w-e-i.org

July 5, 2009 - July 19, 2009
10th Annual International Agroecology Shortcourse
Greetings agroecology community!

We are pleased to announce the 10th Annual International Agroecology Shortcourse. Please mark the dates of July 5-July 19, 2009 for this event!

This year’s International Agroecology Short Course has a special focus on conceptualizing and applying participato...
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Scope: International
Website: http://agroecology.org/Shortcourse.html

July 8, 2009 - July 10, 2009
Missouri Dairy Grazing Conference
Welcome to the Missouri Dairy Grazing Conference! The target audience for the conference is dairymen who want to graze in the U.S. and the theme of the conference is “Managing the System”. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn hotel in Joplin, Missouri and will encompass lectures from un...
Location: Joplin, Missouri
Scope: National
Website: http://agebb.missouri.edu/dairy/grazing/conference/index.htm

July 12, 2009
Rural Roots' Food Safety on the Farm Workshop at Four Seasons Farm
Integrating Plants and Animals on Your Farm and Compost Management
Location: Priest River, Idaho
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.ruralroots.org

July 14, 2009
Organic Farming Field Day
NPSAS Partners with DREC to hold Organic Farming Field Day

The 2009 Inaugural NDSU Organic Farming Field Day & Northern Plains Sustainable Ag Summer Symposium, will be held Tuesday, July 14, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Mountain time) at the Dickinson Research Extension Center, Dickinson,...
Location: Dickinson, North Dakota
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.npsas.org/

July 14, 2009
Rural Roots' Food Safety on the Farm Workshop at Green Bluff High Country Orchard
Tree Fruit and Value-Added Processing, U-Pick Operations, Worker Hygiene and Safety on a Small Family Farm.
Location: Colbert, Washington
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.ruralroots.org

July 15, 2009 - July 17, 2009
3rd National Conference on Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture Education
The Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (SAEA) is proud to announce our 3rd National Conference held at Iowa State University.

Come join us in the heartland to learn about key issues of the sustainable agriculture education research and practice community!

Students and faculty i...
Location: Ames, Iowa
Scope: National
Website: http://sustainableaged.org/2009Conference/tabid/89/Default.aspx

July 28, 2009
Rural Roots' Food Safety on the Farm Workshop at LadyBird Farms
Food Safety Basics, Harvest, Post-Harvest Handling and Compost Management for the Small Acreage Grower
Location: Pocatello, Idaho
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.ruralroots.org

July 29, 2009 - August 2, 2009
11th Annual Rooted in Community National Conference
Ahoy Rooted in Community brothers & sisters!

Although there is lots of snow blanketing our urban gardens and less urban farms we have started dreaming of a summer filled with bountiful harvests and joyful youth... and, five days with wonderful friends from around the U.S.

Where we will RIC ...
Location: Portland, Maine
Scope: National
Website: http://www.rootedincommunity.org/

August 1, 2009 - August 2, 2009
Florida Small Farms Alternative Enterprises Conference
The vast majority of Florida’s nearly 44,000 farms are classified as small farms. Calculated on an area or on an economic basis, nearly 90% of all Florida farms are small farms. Recent increased efforts to meet the educational needs of small farmers in Florida became visible through the work of...
Location: Kissimmee, Florida
Scope: Statewide
Website: http://smallfarms.ifas.ufl.edu

August 3, 2009 - August 5, 2009
3rd National Plant Breeding Workshop
The PBCC serves as a forum regarding issues and opportunities of national and global importance to the public and private sectors of the U.S. national plant breeding effort. This year's workshop will focus on the promotion of plant breeding at the federal and state levels, especially the educatio...
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Scope: National
Website: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/meetings/pbccmeeting2009.html

August 6, 2009 - August 9, 2009
Putting Down Roots: 30th Annual ACGA Conference
The ACGA Membership Conference brings together hundreds of individuals from across the United States, Canada, and abroad, who are engaged in all aspects of gardening and greening. The conference includes hands-on workshops, keynote speakers, a film festival, and visits to parks, school gardens, a...
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Scope: National
Website: http://www.communitygarden.org/learn/training/annual-conference/index.php

August 20, 2009 - September 3, 2009
Permaculture Design Certification
Join Aprovecho for a fourteen day, 72+ hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course with Tao Orion and Abel Kloster of Aprovecho and other local instructors (soon to be announced).

Classes Include:

- Permaculture Ethics & Principles

- Design Methods

- Pattern Understanding

- Climact...
Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.aprovecho.net

August 20, 2009 - September 3, 2009
Aprovecho Permaculture Design Course
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
August 20 - September 23

To enroll, or for more information visit
www.Aprovecho.net
Where better to learn permaculture than on a 40-acre permaculture site that has been integrating the ethics and principles of permaculture into the landscape for 30 yea...
Location: Cottage Grove OR, USA, Oregon
Scope: Regional
Website: http://www.aprovecho.net

August 23, 2009 - August 27, 2009
Farming Systems Design 2009 an international symposium on Methodologies for Integrated Analysis of Farm Production Systems
Meeting Announcement

The Second Farming Systems Design Symposium will be held August 23 to 27, 2009 in Monterey, CA. This meeting is a joint international effort co-sponsored by the American Society of Agronomy, European Society of Agronomy, Australian Society of Agronomy, American Society of ...
Location: Monterey, California
Scope: International
Website: www.iemss.org/farmsys09

August 26, 2009 - August 30, 2009
XVI IPNC 2009: Plant Nutrition for Sustainable Development and Global Health
The 16th International Plant Nutrition Colloquium will highlight advances in fundamental and applied plant nutrition, and emphasize the role of plant nutrition in food systems and environmental sustainability. The colloquium will attract the worlds leading researchers in plant nutrition, leaders ...
Location: Sacramento, California
Scope: International
Website: http://ipnc.ucdavis.edu/

September 1, 2009 - September 4, 2009
Technology and Management to Increase the Efficiency in Sustainable Agricultural Systems - CIGR V
The objectives of the Symposium are to highlight the latest developments in technology and management to ensure sustainable agriculture systems, and to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience among scientists, technicians, producers and students, with sharing of view among people of the ...
Location: Rosario, Argentina
Scope: International
Website: http://www.cigr2009argentina.org/index_files/Page338.htm

September 12, 2009 - September 15, 2009
Strengthening the Goat Industry
On September 12-15th, 2010, Florida A&M University will be hosting a National Goat Conference which will be held in Tallahassee, Florida at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. The theme for this conference is "Strengthening the Goat Industry." Other host institutions, agencies and organizat...
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Scope: National
Website: http://www.famu.edu/goats/UserFiles/File/National%20Goat%20Conference%20Promo%20for%20Website.pdf
Website 2: http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?goats

September 15, 2009 - September 18, 2009
5th National Small Farm Conference
The University of Illinois Extension will be hosting the 5th National Small Farm Conference with support from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Ms. Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant, Extension Specialist, Small Farm and Sustainable Agriculture, is serving as the Coordinator of the conference, and any qu...
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Scope: National
Website: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/smallfarm/

September 17, 2009
Agriculture 2.0: The Conference for Innovators & Investors
Mission:

1) To explore technological innovations in profit-driven sustainable agriculture

2) To introduce profitable sustainable agriculture concepts to investors


Who Should Attend:

Investors

Professionals engaged in one of the following:

Farmers, food processo...
Location: New York City, New York
Scope: National
Website: http://www.newseedadvisors.com/conference

October 10, 2009 - October 13, 2009
13th Annual Community Food Security Coalition Conference
Call for workshop proposals ends April 30. Please visit http://communityfoodconference.org for information and to submit proposals.
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Scope: National
Website: http://communityfoodconference.org

October 11, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Responsible Travel Implementation Workshop
Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Eco-Agritourism Network Workshop: Implementation of Responsible Tourism by Rural Communities. On-site presentations by project directors in Crete, Greece, October 11-18, 2009.

A hands-on educational program designed for current and future Responsible Travel practi...
Location: Crete, Greece
Scope: International
Website: www.cookingincrete.com

October 22, 2009 - October 24, 2009
Midwest Mini-Farming Workshop
John Jeavons, the Director of Ecology Action, will present a Three-Day GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini-Farming Workshop in Fairfield, IA, on October 22-24, 2009. This workshop is an exciting opportunity for farmers and gardeners of all levels to gain an in-depth understanding of the GROW BIOI...
Location: Fairfield, Iowa
Scope: National
Website: http://www.johnjeavons.info

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